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Old 23 March 2010, 02:47 AM   #25
TerryF
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Originally Posted by neillfrith View Post
not in the plural, that's only to indicates posession when you do that to a name e.g. That is Rolex's design

The proper plural would be Rolexes, it follows the same rule as, boxes/foxes/taxes. It aids pronunciation, I was a language student and I am very geeky because I still love grammar, syntax, spelling etc.
Hmmmm and index is therefore indexes??

That is of course similar to mouse:mice and house:houses...

not so?

Reading the above again, it sounds rather condescending which it really isn't meant to be.

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